South Park
Riverside green corridor of lawns, willows and ponds where sixty-five bird species have been recorded.
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About this audio guide
This guide to South Park in Sofia begins in the dead of February 2022, when fifty wooden boxes went up in the trees, a gift from a local doctor with a keen eye for birds. It asks why a capital city's park draws so many species, and follows the Perlovska, the stream born in the foothills of Vitosha, past the willows along its bank. Best heard standing beside the water.
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